IT HARDLY MATTERS Back to Main Index Browse the Archives	Thursday, June 24, 2004 ( 06:14 PM ) Theme of the day: Broken down buses. Today on my way to and from work and everywhere in between, I came across three out-of-commission buses. And another bus that was driving around with its engine cover propped open for some strange reason. Saturday, June 19, 2004 ( 09:52 AM ) From the LA Times: WASHINGTON — President Bush insisted Thursday that Saddam Hussein had "terrorist connections" to Al Qaeda — despite a finding by the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks that there was no credible evidence of cooperation between the ousted Iraqi dictator and the global terrorist network. "The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and Al Qaeda [is] because there was a relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda," Bush said. Seriously. That's his explanation. Oy. ( 09:48 AM ) From the LA Times: Yahoo Exec and Wife Give UCLA $25 Million The board chairman of Yahoo Inc. and his wife are donating $25 million to endow the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, the institute's director, Dr. Peter Whybrow, announced Thursday. The gift from Terry Semel and Jane Bovington Semel is one of the largest ever dedicated exclusively to the better understanding of the human brain, Whybrow said. He said that in recognition of the grant, the institute will be renamed the Jane and Terry Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA. Is anyone else as disappointed as I am that NPI won't be renamed the "Yahoo! Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior"? It just feels strange, knowing it won't be known as NPI anymore after something like 50 years. I guess they'll just have to call it the JTSINHB@U. Catchy, yes. Saturday, June 12, 2004 ( 08:25 AM ) Well, this is it. The last few hours of my great run as a bachelor. My friends took me out for a Last Night of Freedom/Pseudo-Bachelor Party last night and let it be known that I have the awesomest friends in the world. How awesome? So awesome that the people who worked at the place we were at commented to me that they are awesome. Now if only I could get rid of this hangover, we'd be good to go... Monday, June 7, 2004 ( 10:34 PM ) Sono stanco. Molto stanco. Friday, June 4, 2004 ( 03:55 PM ) In the only part of China where commemoration of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests is allowed, tens of thousands of people attend a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong's Victoria Park today to mark the 15th anniversary of the military crackdown on a pro-democracy student movement in Beijing. (AP)